Anderzander Posted February 17, 2009 Share Posted February 17, 2009 Land Rover supplier making redundancies: BBC story Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul Humphreys Posted February 17, 2009 Share Posted February 17, 2009 One of the companies I use to work closed one of its factorys a few weeks ago. I was looking at going back in to welding but there are no jobs going Paul Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anderzander Posted February 20, 2009 Author Share Posted February 20, 2009 Blimey - look at this summary from the BBC web site of what's happened to the UK car manufacturers: Aston Martin: Extended Christmas shutdown and 600 redundancies. Three-day weekBentley: Three-day week in October and longer Christmas break. Closing Crewe plant for seven weeks from March. February announced 220 job losses and 10% pay cut. GM (Vauxhall): Extended Christmas closure and 40-day shutdown Honda: Four-month shutdown between February and May Jaguar Land Rover: Series of one-day shutdowns and production cuts late 2008 plus 1,000 redundancies planned Mini: Christmas shutdown extended by 10 days. 300 agency staff let go and one week shutdown planned for February. From March, plant will run five days per week, from seven, and a further 850 jobs to go. Nissan: Two-week shutdown late last year and 1,200 redundancies. One shift on each line stopped until April 2009. Toyota: One of the night shifts suspended. Four non production weeks planned Ford: 850 jobs to go by May Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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